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Where did the msconfig comand go?
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Greetings -- MSConfig is/was a Win98/Me utility, brought back in WinXP, which is also targeted at the home consumer market. There is no equivalent utility included with WinNT/Win2K. In most cases,...

Copying Files With Cut n Paste Gone
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

HELP I copied a folder on cd drive to copy to a disc with Adaptec DirectCD and it showed copying and then complete. Went to check that it copied all files and it did not, went back to cd drive...

USB keyboard repeat rate is very slow
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I recently purchased an HP USB keyboard and find that the the repeat rate when holding down any key is glacially slow. I've tried changing the speed in Control Panel's Keyboard Properties window but...

Administration privileges
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Tried to install W2K SKP4, failed, now I do not have administration privileges. Can not load or unload programs or hardware. Log-in as administrator same problem. HELP Thanks

Can't delete files unless moved first
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Someone out there must have experienced this problem... or knows how to fix it... and I thank you in advance for some help. Occasionally (10% of the time) and seemingly randomly, when I attempt...

Why use Qchain
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Me wrote: Hi QChain.exe will not chain the installs for you, it is only a tool to use *after* all the installs have been done, but before the reboot. You need to do the installs yourself, e.g....

SP4 installation fails
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

MSIE 6 and Acrobat Reader problem
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Ray, Thanks much for the thoughts. In another answer, Gary suggested enabling all ActiveX permissions. I did that, same result, i.e. still not working. Not sure what to try next. Warren

Data restoring from formated drive
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Sounds like the C drive (containing Windows 2000) was formatted as NTFS and your backup partition was formatted as FAT or FAT32. If so, the NTFS partition was completely ignored by Windows 98 and the...

Screen Saver Settings Won't Hold
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 1 Comments

This appears to be an old problem inherited from WinNT servers: that screen savers often won't do what they are supposed to do. "mike towan" <mtowan@ci.fremont.ca.us> wrote in...

Disk Defragmenter Does Not Respond
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hi, Greg! I actually thought about the Safe Mode method myself but the same thing happens... No action whatsoever! <sigh> ---- Tiziano "Greg Hayes/Raxco Software" <ghayesntloader@raxco.com> wrote...

Use the package for Windows
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

network path not found
Posted on November 5th, 2003 | 1 Comments

What's an addy? Are we hanging out on a street corner here? Is the server service running on the remote machine? Also, enter this at your command prompt (cmd.exe): nbtstat -A...

Are These Files Safe to Delete?
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 6 Comments

Thanks for your response. After I moved some files I placed on the system partition (I always place a copy of the CDROM i386 folder onto the system partition) and the print queues to the free...

arp
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;164609

Removing recently viewed documents from Start menu
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 10 Comments

"David Bullock " <davbul@online.microsoft.com> wrote in news:uiSxqPjoDHA.3040@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl: Even better than what? The OP asked for a way to *prevent* recently used docs from appearing in...

After attempting a Windows 2000 install, the hard drive isn't detected.
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Actually it's the controller you need to be concerned with. Also check the jumper placements against your documentation. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in...

MSIE 6 and Acrobat Reader problem
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Tried installing Adobe Reader 6. Didn't work. After clicking on the PDF link, a message came up in the MSIE browser window saying something like 'Can not find Acrobat.' De-installed it since it...

Limit neighborhood browsing to subnet only?
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Henrique Reis wrote: If that's what you really want to do, I suppose you could set every machine's node type to peer to peer and setup a WINS server and even a DHCP server for each subnet. You...

"could not start" scheduled tasks after time change
Posted on November 4th, 2003 | 3 Comments

"Jeff Patterson " wrote: Holy s***!! So, that's the reason?! That problem has been posted here forever and that's the first explanation for it I have ever seen. Thanks!! -- Ricardo M....